Kalene Jasso was awarded a new individual predoctoral fellowship from NIH entitled “The Role of MCHR1 Signaling in Olfactory Function”. The goal of this project is to increase our understanding of mechanisms that modulate the sense of smell. The project will investigate the role of the melanin-concentrating hormone receptor (MCHR1) in…
Dr. Ashok Kumar, a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience was recently awarded a new R21 from NIA entitled Age-associate impaired executive function: Rescue by NMDA receptor upregulation.
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UF neuroscience postdoc Brittney Yegla, Ph.D., is among featured speakers from across the world who will present at the 2nd Workshop on Research Definitions for Reserve and Resilience in Cognitive Aging and Dementia, to be held virtually Sept. 14 and 15. Yegla will present at 10:15 a.m. on Sept. 15…
Drs. Valerie Joes and Karina Alviña were chosen as AlzSTARS Scholars. This program (Alzheimer’s Science Training to Advance Research Success or AlzSTARS) is a collaboration between the 1Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (1FLADRC) is a National Institute of Aging funded collaboration of The University of…
Drs. Malu Tansey and Rebecca Wallings publish a new review in Biochemical Society Transactions that reviews the role of LRRK2 mutation in pathway regulation in immune cells. Drawing upon data from multiple diseases associated with LRRK2, they highlight the pleiotropic effects of LRRK2 in different cell types. They further role…
Congratulations to Department of Neuroscience faculty members Dr. Yona Levites and Dr. Chris Janus on their successful promotions to Research Associate Professor. Drs. Levites and Janus joined the Department of Neuroscience and the Center for Translational Research Neurodegenerative Disease in 2009. This promotion recognizes their substantial scientific contributions…
Investigators at UF’s Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, or CTRND, earned a one-year, $200,000 award from the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s Target Advancement Program to explore novel approaches to treat Parkinson’s disease. The award will fund a study to determine how targeting cannabinoid receptor 2, or CB2,…
A new study by UF neuroscientists demonstrates an example of the brain’s ability to shift and utilize different neural circuits to perform a task in order to compensate for brain aging. The rat model study, published recently in the Journal of Neuroscience, was designed to test the hypothesis that cognitive…
By Michelle Koidin Jaffee University of Florida neuroscientists have identified an underlying mechanism for how overexposure to manganese, a hard metal often used to produce steel, could induce dysfunction of dopamine neurons. The preclinical mouse-model study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, describes how impairment of dopamine transmission caused by…
